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On 28 November 2018, Jean-Daniel Lainé was acquitted – at the unanimity of the 12 jurors – at the Southwark Crown Court in London of a charge in a linked investigation into alleged corruption relating to a Budapest Metro rolling stock contract and consequently Alstom Network UK has also been found not-guilty. This was the… Read More »

The fight against corruption is necessary to built a fair level playing field in the international trade. Beyond all the existing literature, guidelines, pressures from NGOs, hard Laws and soft Laws, provisions from the enforcement authorities, Anti-Corruption Summits, the viewpoint of the European Union International in its Anti-Corruption Report represents an important milestone. The European Commission… Read More »

Every company working internationally and doing business which involves interaction with public or governmental officials are really exposed and fully liable in case of corruption whether directly or through intermediaries. The awareness of the potential risks and their mitigation through a robust Compliance Program is a top priority for these companies to protect themselves against… Read More »

Impressive literature exists on Ethics & Compliance since the issue of the first FCPA provisions in the USA in the seventies. The bibliography is immense over the world and recommendations have been issued by many international bodies, law firms, audits firms, multilateral development banks, NGO’s, compliance experts etc… Every day a new analysis, brochure or… Read More »

Never delay the necessary changes in the Culture of Integrity of your company, if this topic has not been tackled properly. Among various misconducts, corruption is really a scourge for companies, not because it is morally unacceptable, but because bribery and corruption destroy the companies value. Companies have the general tendency to wait too long before allocating… Read More »

Business Ethics is always a challenging issue for international companies as pitfalls of non-Compliance may be encountered everywhere, everyday. A company’s reputation can be destroyed in a very short term when it comes to the discovery of a corruption act in its transactions. Corruption is everywhere in the world and can be roughly evaluated at… Read More »

It is essential for international companies to have a Compliance Program in order to prevent misconducts, illegal payments and more importantly corruption of civil servants. Further to the introduction of the FCPA in the seventies in the USA, some years later the OECD has issued its convention on bribery and corruption in 1997 and has mobilized many… Read More »

Appointment in Alstom’s Ethics & Compliance Jean-Daniel Lainé has been replaced by Romain Marie who has taken over a department strengthened under his management. See the announcement with the access below: Appointment in Alstom’s Ethics & Compliance department Partenariat d’Alstom avec la Chaire de Droit et Ethique des Affaires de Cergy Pontoise … Read More »

More than ever, Business Ethics is a priority for international companies which can be severely damaged if they don’t take care of this important topic. Corruption of a public servant is a crime and penalized as such. In this respect, the corruption risk exists for companies as soon as they use the services of Third Party… Read More »

The level of cooperation between the enforcement authorities in France (Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office), USA (Department Of Justice), UK (Serious Fraud Office) and everywhere in the world obliges the companies to adopt a global approach in terms of Anti-corruption, Compliance with Competition Law and more generally Business Ethics.

Dealing with Third Parties represents a major risk for companies with global operation worldwide. Companies relying on Third Parties may be fully liable for the misconduct or improper payments made by such Third Parties.

Minimizing the Third Party Risks

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